{"id":54569,"date":"2016-09-22T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=54569"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:55:00","slug":"keck-medical-center-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/keck-medical-center-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Keck Medical Center Patients&#8217; Security Questionable After Ransomware Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Keck Medical Center of Los Angeles, California alerts patients of a ransomware attack&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Keck Medical Center of USC is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keckmedicine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/doc11167320160920094345.pdf\">notifying patients <\/a>of a ransomware attack that they discovered on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1125082819\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 1<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The ransomware affected two servers that did not contain EMR but that did contain internal documents that included demographic information, date of birth,\u00a0 health information including treatment and diagnosis, and in some cases, Social Security numbers. Other files in the encrypted folders contained medical record numbers, date of service, insurance information, and CPT codes, but no patient names.<\/p>\n<p>Keck was able to restore the files within a few days and did not pay any ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Their notice on their site does not indicate how many patients are being notified, but does note that they have no evidence that the data were accessed at all \u2013 only that the data were encrypted by the ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>For a full listing of ransomware attacks, you may click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/53032-ransomware-attacks-of-2016\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Or below you can see each ransomware attack that has occurred in the U.S. this year alone.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1UE6Nko9iRG1tLci_AeqqsxzxGzs\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keck Medical Center of Los Angeles, California alerts patients of a ransomware attack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":53932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4949,4944,5000,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","category-ransomware-reports","category-ransomwarewar","category-the-pit-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keck Medical Center Patients&#039; 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